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HENDERSON'S POPULATION 13,873 WENTY-SIXTH YEAR No# 1 Cadet Gets Diploma i| I|| § 9 || 5 5K 1 ™ as jjrap H SB V ’*^>*,,'l, J . > V;.'' m /?< *„ s,,s‘w ; •. JH mm |||yl ImW.. ../ N J :•• : :«/. yvO \ • ■t' MJBLaw .•' v<§ X &§ - > ’ a c^-rT a^ter *^ Z j U^>an ’ *° p honor man of the graduating class of the , b. . lilitary Academy at West Point, receives his diploma from Presi dent Roosevelt. The Commander-in-Chief handed out commissions as second lieutenants to 456 seniors. In his address to tomorrow’s generals he asked for an America “safe, strong and at peace.” Brig. Gen. J. L. Benedict, superintendent of the academy, is in center. Rival Unions Clash Again At Detroit GenT Motors Shop Flint, Mich., June 14.—(AP) — Rival unionists, at odds over the General Motors strike, clubbed each other today, and before police had separated the combatants, sev eral were injured and three were taken to hospitals. Today’s fight took place near Fisher Body plant No. 1. Both unions of United Automobile Workers have halls adjacent to each other at this point. Partisans hoot at each other with ease here, and Flint police regard it as a hot spot. Windows in the UAW-CIO halls were smashed. About 75 policemen were used in breaking up today’s battle. The combatants used fists and clubs. Po lice reported they seized iron pipes, clubs and a shot gun in the CIO of fi™s. About 100 men were on each side State Crops South’s Best But Are Off Raleigh, June 14.—North Caro lina’s crops, as of June 1, were con iderably below normal, but even so they were still the best in the South, W. H. Rhodes, chief of the State Department of Agriculture’s statistics division, said today. Condition on June 1 was generally regarded as favorable, although the month of May was reported “too dry.” Temperatures were favoable ex cept for cool days early in the month, Rhodes said, and crops advanced rapidly during the last week of May. Some improvement was noted in the condition of small grain crops during May. Farmers’ estimates in dicate a probable yield of wheat of 11.5 bushels per acre, about the same as harvested last year, a half bushel higher than was estimated a month ago and one bushel more Ilian the average of the past ten years. The crop is estimated at 4,- 600,000 bushels, which is ten per cent below last year’s but nine per cent above the ten year average. Condition of other small grains • * (Continued on Page Two) Elections By Engineers Had Raleigh, June 14.—(AP) J. L. Jones, of Norfolk, Va., today was re elected chairman of the southeastern union of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers. Mrs. Mary E. Crittenden, of Norris, Tenn., was again chosen chairman of the union’s chapter of the Grand In ternational Auxiliary, as all officers were re-elected. The two organizations adjourned a three-day convention this morning, then took a sight-seeing trip to Dur ham and Chapel Hill. Yesterday New Orleans was awarded the 1940 con vention. George M. Bishop, of Jacksonville, Fla., was elected vice-chairman of the union, and H. O. Denny, of At lanta. Ga., was re-elected secretary treasurer. Hrnhrranu tUtilit Utsmitrh L^jfnS^D . JIR E SERVICE OP IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS in the latest outbreak, police esti mated. At Saginaw, where police battled Monday with pickets, all was quiet today. At Milwaukee, Wis., Governor Julius Heil sought today to bring officials of the Allis-Chalmers Man ufacturing Company and labor union leaders together in hopes of settling a strike at the huge plant in subur ban West Allis, where 13 persons were injured in rioting yesterday. A picket line three blocks long paraded in front of the company’s main entrance this morning without incident. Only a skeleton force of office workers reported for duty, in accordance with instructions from Max W. Babb, company president, who ordered only enough workers on duty to answer mail and handle other incidentals. Business Up, But Experts Pessimistic By CHARLES I*. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, June 14.—Business has been a bit better of late. There’s no boom. Still, since about mid-May big industries have Senator O’Mahoney mercial statisticians generally agree on all this. Curiously enough, however, they also agree that businessmen arc fully as pessimistic as ever, or even more so. There’s no let-up in demands on Congress for relief. Witnesses before Senator O’Ma honey’s economic investigating com mittee continue to be profoundly glum. In fact, they’re glummer than they were when business was worse. Why? As nearly as I can discover from chats with a considerable number of these witnesses, with labor leaders and with government economists, the reason is that the apparent busi ness improvement is unaccompanied by any appreciable decrease in un employment or by any evidence that miscellaneous distressed groups in (Continued on Page Six) AVERILL TRADED TO TIGERS BY INDIANS Cleveland, Ohio, June 14.—(AP) —The Cleveland Indians today traded Outfielder Earl Averill to Detroit for Pitcher Flarry Eisenstat and cash. Averill, a lefthanded bat ter 36 years old, has been a mem ber of all five American League ail-star teams. only DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOimi CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. sped up production somewhat, sug gesting there must be an increasing demand for their goods. Trade fig ures bear this sug gestion out. More buying evidently is being done—not a lot more, but enough more you’d think, to be mildly encouraging. Com- HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JUNE 14, 1939 Missing Baby Found Dead Ohio Farm Ten-Weeks Old In fant Reported Stolen From Crib; Sheriff Suspects Kidnapers Clyde, Ohio, June 14. (AP) —Sheriff L. E. Myers announced today the body of ten-weeks-old Haldon Fink, reported stolen from the crib of his home here last night, had been found in a c»‘eek on a farm seven miles west of here. The child had been missing about 12 hours when its body was found in Green creek on the George Tom sen farm on new U. S. highway 20. Sheriff Miles, who said earlier to day the disappearance of the boy “looks like a kidnaping” announced he had enlisted the aid of the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation. Finding of the boy culminated an all-night search after the baby’s dis appearance between 10 and 11 o’clock last night. The baby was sleeping in a street level room in the home of the grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oran Barker. Mrs. Irvin Fink, 22, mother, and the grandmother left the house at 10 o’clock last night. An hour later they returned aftd found the baby gone. The grandfather, hard of hearing, said he perceived no sounds as he sat in an adjoining room. The parents are divorced. ICC BOARD DEFERS TRUCKERS HEARING Raleigh, June 14.—(AP) —Joint board No. 7 of the Interstate Com merce Commission postponed inde finitely today a hearing of Everett Cecil Bryant, of Jackson, for a fran chise to haul general agricultural commodities by truck from North ampton, Halifax, and Bertie coun ties to north Virginia and Northern points. R. O. Self, chief clerk of the State Utilities Commission, and A. T. Keatner, Counsellor of the Virginia Corporation... Commission, comprised the joint board. A. L. Everett did not appear for scheduled hearing on his petition to operate trucks from his home town of Harrellsville to Norfolk, Va., to haul fertilizer. Duke Power Profits Drop During 1938 Raleigh, June 14.—(AP) —The Duke Power Company, largest pub lic utility in the Carolinas, made a profit of $4,297,150.46 last year, compared with $4,660,474 in 1937, the Utilities Commission announced today. The company last year paid a three percent dividend, amounting to $3,030,144 on common stock and a seven percent dividend amount ing to $19,859 on preferred stock. The figures released by the com mission were based on the com pany’s annual report. The public utility serves 154,275 electricity cust omers in North Carolina, and sold 1,212,133,009 kilowatt hours in North Carolina. Profits from the sale of electricity in North Carolina were listed as $4,974,125.30. Revenues from the sale of elec tricity in both North Carolina and South Carolina amounted to $24, 944,714.35, compared with expenses of $19,616,907.75. Rumor Declares Daniels Seeking Old Navy Post Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 14.—It’s too hot, either from the weather or from the enthusiasm with which the natives stage anti-American demonstrations near the American Embassy in Mex ico City to suit the Honorable Jose phus Daniels, ambassador to the re public just south of the Rio Grande; and so the Honorable Josephus would like the best in the world to get the job he filled under Woodrow Wil son —secretary of the navy; accord ing to persistent reports which filter into this bureau via Tar Heels resi dents in Washington but home on pleasure or business bent. This desire, rather than the am bitions of Jonathan Daniels to the national committee or perhaps in close conjunction and cooperation with those ambitions, is reportedly responsible for the obvious efforts the Daniels paper, the Raleigh News and Observer, is putting into a “kiss and make-up” campaign aimed at former Governor O. Max Gardner and present Governor Clyde R. Hoey. It is whispered that before the snow Bullitt Comes Home mm I \ 4 , ML ■PPNI William C. Bullitt William C. Bullitt, United States ambassador to France, is pictured as he arrived in New York for a brief summer vacation. He is ex pected to make a report on the European situation to President Roosevelt and the State Depart ment in Washington. — fe Kladno Jews Are To Pay 80 Pet. Fine Other 20 Percent of $20,000 Levy Result ing from Killing of German Policeman Comes from Benes Group Prague, June 14.—(AP) —The Jewish community of Kladno will be forced to pay 80 percent of the 500,000-crown (about $20,000) fine levied upon the district by Baron von Neurath, Reich protector, for the killing of a German policeman, it was learned from Czech inform ants today. The remaining 20 per cent will be collected from the “Benes” (former Czechoslovak presi dent) system. This means Germans living in the district and those sym pathetic toward the protectorate will be exempted for payment. Kladno gradually was returning to normal today, with Czech state police brought from Prague and Pilsen again patrolling the streets. Schools, which had been closed since the shooting last Wednesday night, and which had served as a temporary place of detention for Czech police, resumed classes. Kermon Confers In Raleigh on Rates Charged on Phones Raleigh, June 14. —(AP) —R. M. Kermon, of Wilmington, conferred here today with Utilities Commis sioner Stanley Winborne, in regard to the Wilmington - Wrightsville Beach telephone rate case, to be heard here June 30. Kermon said he was seeking infor mation to use in the fight to lower the rates between Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. flies even senior Senator Josiah W. Bailey will come in for a pat on the back from the N. and O. That, at least, is what is reported to your cor respondent by political observers of better than moderate acumen and experience. Logic of the observers seems fault less and runs something like this: Ambassador Daniels is tiring of Mexico, doesn’t like his job there any too much and is dead set on getting a cabinet place, particularly the one he filled in Wilsonian days. He has tried all his own persuasive powers on the President, but Mr. Roosevelt, convinced that Josephus in his own right can’t even deliver one vote in in the 1940 national convention, much less the North Carolina dele gation in toto, can’t see the point in feeding so tasty a political plum to one who can’t return a quid pro quo. Hence the Daniels plans have fallen on deaf ears. Now enters the Gardner-Hoey, particularly the Gardner, angle. The President, as well as Josephus (Continued on Page Six) House Bill Asks Three-Man Board To Administer WPA; NYA Appropriation Slashed Britain Planning Move Os Retaliation Against Japanese For Blockade Method of Action Un de r Consideration; British and French Concessions at Tient sin Bottled Up by Japanese Authorities London, June 14—(AP) —The Brit-* ish government informed the House of Commons today that ,it was con sidering possible measures of retalia tion against the Japanese blockade of the British concession at Tientsin. Foreign Undersecretary R. A. But ler announced the government’s po sition, but said the exact nature of possible retaliatory measures had not yet been determined. He said Britain was keeping in close touch with the governments of the United States and France on all developments. The French concession at Tientsin also is blockaded. Asked if Japanese ships would be barred from Britain’s Far Eastern ports of Hong Kong, Singapore and Penang in retaliation for the block ade, Butler said: “The question of what measures would be appropriate with regard to the Japanese blockade of the British concession at Tientsin is at present under examination, and must depend in some degree on the nature of ac tion taken by the Japanese.” “In connection with the blockade, may 1 ask whether British residents are suffering in any way owing to food shortage or the increase in prices?” Laborite Bellenger asked. Butler said Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax was expecting a full report on the situation, and would make a statement to Parliament as soon as the report was received. The government was said by an in formed source to be continuing to urge establishment of a court of in quiry with a neutral chairman, the (Continued on Page Six) Dr. T. E. Donoghue Heads Optometrists Raleigh, June 14. (AP) Dr. Thomas E. Donoghue, of Wilson, was elected president of the Eastern Dis trict Society of Optometrists and Wil son was chosen for a meeting July 18 at the group’s meeting here last night. Also elected were Dr. George L. Parker, of Rocky Mount, vice-presi dent, and Dr. V. H. Newborn, of Tar boro, secretary-treasurer. The offi cers will be installed at the next meeting, at which time an education chairman will be named. Dr. G. C. Hodgens, of Raleigh, is retiring president, and Dr. H. B. Day, of Raleigh, is now education chair man. Man and Wife Are Held For Child’s Death Kenansville, June 14. (AP) —A Duplin county coroner’s jury found this afternoon after 35 minutes’ de liberation that “the child Ray James Goodman came to death by strangu lation at the hands of Sheprose R. Holland or Sallie Goodman Holland or both.” Warrants were issued for Holland and his wife. The man was charged with murder in the first degree and ordered held without bail. Mrs. Hol land was ordered held without bond as a material witness. The child was reported at first to have drowned in the mill stream at Jones’ mill Wednesday, June 7. The incident was first dismissed as an accident by Coroner Ralph Jones, of Duplin county. Suspicious circum stances, however, caused an autopsy Friday by Dr. H. C. Wysong, Duplin health officer, and Dr. G. V. Good ing, of Kenansville. Testifying before the coroner’s inquest today they said that they found no water in the lungs ! of the child. They said that there were bruises about the throat of the three-year old boy. (jJacdthsUi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, with occasional showers Thursday and in south and east portions tonight; slight ly cooler in extreme north cen tral portion tonight. i PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Blamed for Riots , | Alberto Arenal Alberto Arenal was accused by Mexico City police of being leader of students who staged a violent anti-American demonstrationo de claring. the plane which carried Francisco Sarabia, Mexico’s ace flier, to his death in Washington had been sabotaged. Forty rioter* were arrested. Anti-Jewish Trouble In Baltimore Retaliatory Attack Follows Action Against Jewish Stu dent in Junior High School There Baltimore, Md., June 14.—(AP) — A retaliatory attack on pupils at a junior high school where a 14-year old Jewish youth was branded with an “H” brought suspension today of four city college high school stu dents. Their suspension was in ad ditional to 18 others from the Gwynn’s Falls junior high school, where Melvin Bridge said he was pulled from a baseball game by 40 students with swastikas inked on their arms, who knifed the letter in his neck. Police established a two-car radio patrol at the junior school, where half the 2,500 students were said by officials to be of German origin, and 30 percent of Jewish faith, while school authorities sought to deter mine whether the assault was the result of a prank or an organized anti-Semetic outbreak. Barring of the four from classes was disclosed after a preliminary hearing yesterday into assault and disorderly conduct charges against Morton Rosen, 19-year-old seaman and friend of Bridge. Buff Is Head Os Pythians Salisbury, June 14.—(AP) —Jason E. Buff, of Hickory, was today elect ed grand chancellor of the 68th an nual session of the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias. Other Grand Lodge officers elected included: E. H. Faley, of Fayetteville, vice-chancellor; Rev. Isaac \y. Hughes, of Henderson, prelate; I. W. Farmer, Clayton, keep of record and seal; J. I. Jack, Durham, master of arms; Sam Worthington, of Green ville, and W. B. Burke, of Greens boro, representatives. G. F. Hinshaw, of Winston-Salem, and J. L. Weathers of Fayetteville, were named members of the board of trustees, of the Pythias home of Clayton, and J. H. Waldrop, of Green ville, D. G. Downing, of Fayetteville, and M. N. Epstein, of Goldsboro, were named trustees of the Pythian Heme Endowment Fund. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Full Farm Security Is Requested John W. Dukes Con sidered as Regional Wage-Hour Law Di rector for Carolinas; 1940 WPA Appropri ations Carries sl,- 477,000 Washington, June 14.—(AP) —A 1940 relief appropriation carrying the full $1,477,000,000 asked by President Roosevelt for WPA but recommending a substitution of a 3-man board for the WPA admin istrator, went to the House today from its appropriations committee. Announcement of this and a hand full of other recommendations for major changes in the relief set-up signaled the opening of a major fight over whether federal relief would continue to be administered along the lines followed by the Roosevelt administration since 1933. The committee axe, its report to the House showed was directed chiefly against the National Youth Administration. The NYA appropri ation was slashed from $123,000,000 asked by the President to $81,000,000. The full farm security adminis tration appropriation of $123,000,- 000 was recommended. Addition ally, the committee provided for year marking for $125,000,000 of the WPA’s $1,477,000,000 for heavy con struction approved by the WPA. The bill carrying funds for the fiscal year beginning July 1 totalled $1,716,000,000. Other developments: Informed persons said John W. (Continued on Page Six) Dietrich Owes Uncle Sam Tax New York, June 14.—(AP)—Fed eral agents seized the luggage of Marlene Dietrich on board the French liner Normandie on orders of the Internal Revenue Department because of alleged non-payment of $284,000 income tax for 1936-37. The German born actress, who recently became an American citi zen, had 9 trunks, 2 pieces of hand baggage, and about 10 packages which were removed from the ves sel a few minutes before sailing time. Miss Dietrich was bound for a European vacation with her hus band. Negroes Seek Pay Equality For Teachers Raleigh, June 14.—(AP) — A spokesman for the North Carolina State Teachers Association for Ne groes asked the School Commission to use: “most of” the $250,000 avail able for teachers’ pay increases to raise pay of Negro teachers and nar row the division between the sala ries of white and Negro teachers. Dean J. T. Taylor, of the North Carolina College for Negroes, say ing he spoke for a committee from the Negro teachers, explained he did not expect to voice a threat but ex plained there were “certain Ne groes” who favored court action to try to wipe out the difference. Slices of the funds also were ask ed for three other groups: county superintendents, elementary princi pals, and classroom teachers. Miss Agnes McDonald, of Greens boro, representing the classroom teachers, asked that the $250,000 be applied to increments for 5 to 8 years of teaching experience for both white and Negro teachers, but B. L. Smith, superintendent of Greens boro schools and former president of the North Carolina Education As sociation, expressed the opinion all the fund should be converted into a ninth increment for all. Eight in crements now are provided. J. S. Staton, of Angier, asked that the pay of principals of elementary schools with less than 7 teachers be raised and J. S. Blair, of Bladen county, headed a group of county superintendents requesting that their pay be made equal with- the sala ries of city superintendents.
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